Before the founding of the Western Xia Dynasty, the Dangxiang people were divided into many tribes by surname, including the Xifeng clan, the Fei Ting clan, the Xiangli clan, the Pochao clan, the Yeci clan, the Fangdang clan, the Mi Bao clan, and the Tuoba clan, among which the Tuoba clan was the most powerful. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoTuoba clan is now the Great Xia royal family, Tuoba clan was first given the surname Li by the Tang Dynasty, and later given the surname Zhao by the Great Song Dynasty, Li Yuanhao was called the emperor and then changed to the name of Wei, and now it has been changed back to the surname Li.

The tribal army of the eight divisions of the party was the foundation of the founding of the Western Xia, but after the establishment of Great Xia, Li Yuanhao wantonly divided and co-opted the remaining seven tribes in order to weaken the tribal power. The most elite and brave warriors of the tribal armies of each tribe were selected into the "Iron Harrier", and the remaining warriors were selected into the garrison and the capture army, and they were given official positions and high salaries to weaken the power of the tribes.

Since he was selected from the fine seal department to join the capture army more than ten years ago, he has been working step by step from an ordinary soldier to the commander of the Sishan Front Battalion of the Left Wing Divine Brave Army, and has participated in countless battles against the Great Song Dynasty, and has never been so deflated.

From the round of confrontation just now, Xifeng Yingdian saw that Jingqiang Village actually had no combat power. But he refused to pay the contribution, and shot himself with arrows, and couldn't help but be angry, and couldn't help but order his men to cut down trees and prepare to build on the moat of Jingqiang Village to prepare for attacking the wall.

In fact, the Xia army rarely attacked strong walled cities. Plundering like flying, killing the enemy in the field is their strong point.

In the past, whenever the party cavalry of Xifeng Yingdian came to the Great Song Dynasty to plunder, it was to capture the people who came to not only hide in the fortress, but also to rob the food and property that was too late to transfer to the fortress, which was the main task of their coming to the Song Dynasty. At the risk of injuring many manpower, it was not cost-effective to attack a fortified fortress.

It's just that today Xifeng Yingdian is a little angry, and he can't help but give some good-looking to the people of Jingqiang Village. Today, they originally found out that there was a newly established stockade under this Tiantai Mountain, and felt that the newly established stockade must not be strong in combat, they did not know the strength of the party cavalry, maybe they would be a little unprepared, if they could suddenly attack, maybe they could directly break into the village. However, the wealth and population of the village are theirs, and it is really a good opportunity to make a fortune.

However, when Xifeng Yingdian led his camp in front of the mountain to make a fortune, he first injured many horses and cavalry with strange weapons that could make loud noises and explosions thrown by the spies in Jingqiang Village on the west bank of the Kuye River.

However, although Xifeng Yingdian was in anger, after all, he had been in battle for a long time and had rich experience on the battlefield, and he knew that there would be many losses for his subordinates when attacking the walled wall during the day, so he made up his mind to attack at night. Although he judged that the soldiers on the wall were not high, he knew that it would be difficult to succeed if he attacked the wall during the day. After all, the walls are tall and strong, and the defenders still have a big advantage.

At night, many of the defenders' advantages were offset by the darkness of the night. Now it is the end of the month, when the moon is dark, it is impossible to see the reality in the dark, and the arrows are not accurate, and they do not take advantage of the defense. Moreover, these soldiers of Jingqiang Village are all freshmen who do not have much experience in battle formations, and it is even more difficult to command at night, and it is easier to have defensive loopholes. Again, the transmission of orders at night was also a problem, especially among the Forces nouvelles.

He sent more than half of his men to cut down trees everywhere, which were used to build wooden bridges over the moat, and some were used to make ladders to climb the wall.

He also sent a small number of his remaining men to set up tents and bury pots for cooking. As for the camp, Xifeng Yingdian felt that there was no need to repair it at all, and he didn't believe that the soldiers of Jingqiang Village dared to open the door and come out. If the Song army dares to open the door and come out to attack, it will be self-defeating. Field battles, these Song troops are not enough to see.

Grain is readily available, and there are many in the wheat fields of Jingqiang Village. The grains of wheat rubbed off the ears of wheat were mixed with jerky and cooked, and this was the dinner of his cavalry tonight. Although the wheat grains are difficult to cook, as long as it takes a little more work, they still taste good.

Xi Feng Yingdian looked at these wheat fields in front of him, these were all his, and he naturally thought of it. This Jingqiang village is a newly established village, and I didn't expect there to be so many harvests in the first year. Xifeng Yingdian thought to himself: This grain still needs those Song people to help him harvest it, and it seems that after the village is broken, all the people in this village cannot be killed.

Well, wait until they help them get the grain and the contents of the stockade, and then kill them all!

Originally, these people were also a property as slaves, but today Xifeng Yingdian was really a little angry, and he had already decided to kill!

As the sun set, the busy party cavalry stopped what they were doing and came to the camp to eat.

In front of Xifeng Yingdian, there was a bowl of wheat rice mixed with this jerky, and he was eating it in a daze, while still thinking about how to attack the wall of this Jingqiang village tonight.

The north side of Jingqiang Village is the front wall, although the soldiers on this side are not very high, but the number is quite a lot, and the fine seal Yingdian feels that if it is a frontal attack, his subordinates here must have many losses. His subordinates are all with him after a hundred battles, so naturally they can't be killed easily. Xifeng Yingdian felt that the scale of this Jingqiang village was not small, and there might not be many people in the village to defend it, and its side should be weaker, so he felt that it was a good choice to attack from the west wall.

After thinking about things, the fine seal Yingdian quickly finished the bowl of wheat rice and stood up. Just now, my mind was thinking about things, and at this time, my mind suddenly relaxed, and I couldn't help but feel a sharp pain in my shoulder, and I couldn't help but hate: I must give this Song Dog in Jingqiang Village a lesson that I will never forget!

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The smoke in the Xia army camp under the walled wall curled up and blew obliquely towards the wall.

Zhong Hao couldn't help but look a little bitter when he looked at the cooking smoke above his head, and said to Yang Huaiyu beside him: "These party members are camping and cutting down trees, it seems that they really want to attack the village!" ”

Yang Huaiyu said nonchalantly: "Big brother, don't worry, they have to attack if they want to." The advantage of the Xia people is that they are on horseback, and these party cavalry dismount and may not be as good as the soldiers in our stockade! ”

Zhong Hao does not have as much confidence as Yang Huaiyu, if these Xia troops really want to attack the wall, Zhong Hao feels that this village may not be able to prevent it, mainly because these soldiers on the wall really have no experience in defending the city! Moreover, there are 2,400 steps on all sides of the wall of this Jingqiang village, and the people on the wall are afraid that they will lose sight of one or the other when defending. Although the number of party members is very small, they are all strong and domineering, and they may not be able to stop them if they climb up from somewhere.

Zhong Hao felt that he couldn't wait for the Xia army to attack, and it seemed that he should take the initiative to attack. Of course, Zhong Hao's initiative was not to open the gate of the village to fight with Xia Jun, but he felt that he could use his newly developed gunpowder weapon.

Xia Jun's planks and ladders are still being manufactured, and I am afraid that they will not attack the wall for a while. Zhong Hao took Yang Huaiyu to the corner tower to have some food, and by the way, discussed the strategy of dealing with Xia Jun.

There was a simple meal on the table in the corner tower, Zhong Hao and Yang Huaiyu were a little ruthless, and they picked up the steamed cakes on the table and ate them.

Zhong Hao was eating steamed cakes, and suddenly remembered half of the unharvested wheat fields outside the village in Jingqiang Village, as well as his own precious sweet potatoes, and couldn't help but ask: "Zhong Rong said that the crops outside the village, will the party members destroy them?" ”

Yang Huaiyu chewed the steamed cake in his mouth, and said vaguely: "It shouldn't be ruined, but even if it is not destroyed, the eldest brother doesn't have to count on it." Those grains must have become those of the Xia army, they originally came to sweep them, so naturally they will not let them go! ”

Zhong Hao couldn't help but feel a little distressed, that was half of the grain in his Jingqiang Village, the key was his precious sweet potato, which was originally harvested this year, and he could be used as seeds for hundreds of acres of land next year.

"Do you think those party members will know that sweet potatoes are also food? Will they all be poached? Zhong Hao couldn't help but ask Yang Huaiyu.

Yang Huaiyu saw Zhong Hao's worries, and couldn't help but comfort: "This is not accurate, but I think they shouldn't know." Besides, when ordinary people see something they don't know, they are afraid and dare not eat it. Big brother, just relax, the water comes to the earth, the soldiers come to block, see the move! These party members can't take advantage of it, and it is estimated that they will leave in a few days! ”

Zhong Haoxin said: That's not necessarily, there is food outside the stockade, and it is not impossible for these party cavalry to be consumed outside!

If these party cavalry really consume outside the stockade and do not leave, it will also be a trouble. Zhong Hao felt that he had to find a way to drive them away.

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The autumn night is a little cool, and the moon shows a narrow bend.

At the right time, most of the cavalry in the front battalion of the Divine Warrior Army on the left side fell asleep. Today they came from a long run, and met the scouts of Jingqiang Village in the middle, and had a chase battle, and after arriving at Jingqiang Village, each of them shot a feather arrow, and then cut down trees, and made boards and ladders, and was already tired. Because they had to attack the wall in the second half of the night, they all seized this time to sleep to replenish their strength.

They looked down on Jingqiang Village, and knew that Jingqiang Village would never dare or have the ability to come out and attack the camp at night, so they slept very peacefully. Of course, the sentry still has to be sent, so there is no big mistake in being careful. Moreover, everyone's war horses in the camp in front of the mountain were tied to the door of their tents, and as soon as there was an alarm, they could get on their horses and fight as soon as possible.

The autumn nights were very cold, and these party cavalrymen put their felt blankets over their horses to prevent them from catching a cold. War horses are the lifeblood of these party cavalry, and they are even better at their own war horses than their daughters-in-law.

Zhong Hao and Yang Huaiyu stood on the wall, looking at the quiet camp of the party members, and couldn't help but be a little speechless. They slept soundly, but Zhong Hao was afraid that these party members would attack the wall at night, so he didn't dare to let the soldiers rest, just two shifts, each resting for half the night.

"While they're asleep, try our newly developed ** bag?" Zhong Hao said to Yang Huaiyu.

"Well, try!" Yang Huaiyu looked at the party camp and replied.

"I wonder if it will have an effect?"

"It will definitely have an effect, those cavalry are on war horses during the day, and it is better to control the frightened war horses! But at night, when the horses were frightened, after the cavalry got up, I was afraid that the horses would not be found, and I was afraid that they would not be able to control the horses! ”

"Then try!"

Zhong Hao commanded the soldiers on the wall, with the cooperation of craftsmen, to assemble ten small stone throwing machines, pull up the projectile rod, insert the bayonet, and then hang the counterweight, and put a cloth bag filled with black ~ gunpowder tightly into the bomb pocket, ready to launch.

These ten small stone throwing machines are small stone throwing machines designed by Zhong Hao according to the narrow and narrow walls of Jingqiang Zhai and referring to the portable "return cannon" commonly used by Mongolians in later generations. This kind of small "return cannon" commonly used by the Mongols in later generations can be disassembled, a horse can be humped, and it is a counterweight, which can be taken from local materials. This kind of small "return artillery" made great contributions to the Mongols in all directions, attacking cities and plundering land.

The Pingxi soldiers in the village are not good at fighting, but the craftsmen's skills are good, and many craftsmen have participated in the manufacture of siege and defense equipment, and several of them have studied the stone throwing machine. Zhong Hao told the craftsmen about the principle and basic style of this counterweight "return cannon" that he later learned, and those craftsmen were greatly inspired to develop these ten small counterweight stone throwers with Zhong Hao.

In order to take care of the narrow wall on the wall, these ten stone throwers were smaller than the "return cannon" of the Mongols in later generations, and Zhong Hao and several craftsmen tried: a stone of forty or fifty catties can only be thrown forty or fifty paces away. If it is more than ten catties, it can be thrown 200 steps away.

Generally, a large stone throwing machine can throw hundreds or even thousands of pounds of stones to smash the city wall, or suppress the defenders, and smash the city defense facilities. The stones thrown by the smaller stone throwers are also hundreds of catties. The size of the stone is too large to smash buildings and facilities, and the lethality is very limited.

These small stone throwers in Jingqiang Village can be said to be very chicken. Thirty or forty catties of stones are not big, the lethality is limited, and the throwing distance is short, it is better to wait for the enemy to get close and lift the stones and throw them down the wall to save trouble, after all, the stone throwing machine is still a little troublesome to operate. As for a dozen catties of stones, it would only be a joke to throw them out with that effort.

However, after having the ** bag, Zhong Hao found that the role of this small stone throwing machine was suddenly greater. It is a dozen catties of stones and a dozen catties of black ~ gunpowder, but the lethality is completely different.

Zhong Hao commanded the small stone thrower to assemble it by hand, and he didn't care, he said that the command on the wall was handed over to Yang Huaiyu.

Yang Huaiyu looked at the Dang Xiang military camp and said in a deep voice: "Ignite!" ”

Ten soldiers of the war battalion quickly ignited the velvet fuse on the ** bag with a fire fold.

Yang Huaiyu waved his hand heavily and said in a deep voice: "Launch!" ”

The ten soldiers of the battalion each struck the cardinal pin of the stone thrower with a small hammer in their hands.

The bayonet bounced off, the counterweight hanging on the projectile rod quickly fell, and the other end of the projectile rod was quickly lifted, and ten black ~ gunpowder quickly flew away to the party barracks. (To be continued.) )

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